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Originally Posted by Formulajones
Hey Jeremy, I think we talked about this before?
Anyway, yes Cold Case does have show deals. Back in March we had the cars (and Dad's GTO) at the Goodguys event and they were there. Had excellent deals on the Cold Case stuff as well as Pypes exhaust that tempted me to buy stuff for another project. They were also nice enough (and curious enough) to look at dad's car while we were there trying to figure out why it was running so warm. Of course we found out why later which was the purpose of me starting this thread.
Anyway, when it comes to these radiators, I like these aluminum radiators as long as they use the larger 1 1/4" tubes and have 2 rows of them. Some of the cheaper aluminum radiators fall short of this.
I've mentioned this to a few board members via email. When dad bought the Cold Case I compared it to my Griffin direct fit that I run in the Chevelle. Both cars (a-bodies) take the same size radiator. They both have 1 1/4" tubes and 2 rows of them. They both have a very tight fin count which is important for airflow. They both have nice stamped tanks that give a factory appearance and both show excellent quality tig welds, trans lines are in the correct locations with no monkey business needed there, and also important is that they have the proper raised area at the tanks for the factory rubber insulators so the factory shroud fits and functions just like it's supposed to. Many aftermarket aluminum radiators don't have this feature and it's a big turn off for me.
Bottom line, the Cold Case radiator is a nice piece, and cools dad's engine with no issues at all, matter of fact I was impressed at how cool it actually pulled the engine down. Just shows the radiator is definitely up to the task.
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Vertical tube spacing, and total number of tubes also directly affects cooling capacity. Some of the cheaper ones do not measure up in this area and performance suffers.
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